COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Manc Born & Bred]

600 + deaths reported yesterday and was it 6,000 new cases??

Why are we considering, basically ending lockdown with these numbers. The media are in overdrive to get everything back to normal and ignore what’s going on

The media were banging on for a short while about how we should be in lockdown and now we are they are banging on about coming out of lockdown. Utter clickbait cocks. Can you imagine the outcry if we had had a lockdown like Italy or in Spain. We have had a semi lockdown and many people have ignored it anyway because the punishment was a slap on the wrist. Reference what happened in other countries if lockdown rules were broken. It has been bloody tough here but nothing compared to other countries, the arse has fallen out of my business and I get no help from the government but I would prefer this to having to be on a ventilator or worse.

 

[bluemoon32]

Adele is looking different. Wonder how much she paid for all that work!

You still wouldn't though

 

[Chippy_boy]

20% of the workforce are being paid by the state currently.
27 million people.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/05/04/half-adults-now-paid-state/

I've not read your link in detail but the figures are all over the place. First of all the total number of employed people in the UK (across all sectors) is only about 30m.

So 20% of that is 6m, not 27m. And if we are paying 27m people then thats 90% which is clearly wrong. And the article says 50%.

Sounds like a Diane Abbott interview.

 

[purplenose]

Adele is looking different. Wonder how much she paid for all that work!

She looks fit as fuck.

 

[bluemoon32]

She looks fit as fuck.

 

[sir baconface]

to be fair you don’t need to be a medical expert to see the risk the virus has on the elderly . There should have been a real task force and focus around all Uk care homes to shield them a lot more . People going in and out all day untested is just a nightmare waiting to happen. Could have done a lot better here .
but at least they got a badge.

I was once indirectly involved in a piece of work for the Care Quality Commission. Their primary concern? Staff pay, grading and conditions. If only it were an isolated case in the non-commercial sector.

Government ministers (any government) are basically transient amateurs, reliant on expert support and proactive, assertive advice from career experts in the civil service, QUANGOs and regulatory bodies. That support is generally mediocre, with too many time servers in cushy numbers and senior managers who want gongs and fat pensions. Well, you don’t get a gong for rocking the boat or for championing your cause against bean counters or lairy politicians. Ministers in turn rarely know how to delegate, resorting instead to often ill-conceived targets and, when time are tough, micro management. We’re lucky if planning horizons extend beyond the next wank.

So while it’s fair to blame the government for some of the current incompetence, the whole apparatus is creaky and things would be no better under any other administration.

I’d also bet most of the more cynical posters on here are/were in non frontline, white collar public sector roles with no decision making accountability, and who peep(ed) above the parapet only on social media.

 

[johnnytapia]

You still wouldn't though

From 2 metres.

 

[True_Blue69]

I've not read your link in detail but the figures are all over the place. First of all the total number of employed people in the UK (across all sectors) is only about 30m.

So 20% of that is 6m, not 27m. And if we are paying 27m people then thats 90% which is clearly wrong. And the article says 50%.

Sounds like a Diane Abbott interview.

The 27 million includes public sector workers I believe, topped up with those that are furloughed.

 

[Chippy_boy]

She looks fit as fuck.

Paraphrasing, "she doesn't look quite as fat as she used to".

 

[Proy]

The media here are something else. They really are. Anything to sell a fucking paper.

Imo, lockdown will continue for a further 3 weeks with some light lifting of restrictions, likely centred around being allowed to travel a little further for exercise etc.

The main point of Sunday will be putting out in the public domain the plan over the next 6 weeks or so.

Coming out of a lockdown now will quite literally cost thousands of lives.

 

[Chippy_boy]

The 27 million includes public sector workers I believe, topped up with those that are furloughed.

Makes no sense. As I say, the total number of people employed in the UK across all sectors is only like 30m ish. 33m maybe. The article says 50% are furloughed. That's 15m, 16m whatever. It cannot be 27m.

 

[Rammy Blue]

You still wouldn't though

Speak for yourself, I’d bum it til her head fell off. (Being worth £150mil would help)

 

[blueun]

The man made virus to reset the worlds population. Attacks the weak and vunerable, the fit survive. When they ease the lockdown the next wave will be horrendus. Then youre under control by fear. You will take a vaccine that does not heal but allows more deaths while big pharma makes trillions. I pity the weak with all ailments from AIDS to alzheimers. Healthy peoole should go outside we need bacteria to boost our immune sysyem.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

Which is ironic given how badly ill Johnson was with it, despite not having any underlying health conditions (that we are aware of).

Of course lockdown can't continue forever but the numbers are still alarmingly high. My concern is that the government are seeing other nations coming out of lockdown and the motivation now is not to fall behind them economically, which is an understandable concern but it should not be at the expense of people's health.

Talk of re-opening beer gardens seems a classic deflection technique. If the proles can go to the pub they can also go back to work.

Ireland's measures for coming out of lockdown has the health and safety of the public very much at the forefront. It will be interesting to see how ours compare.

I am sure it will be very staged and slow. It won’t be a sudden jump and release. But golf, fishing? Going to the countryside . Going for a long walk ?

things that can be done on your own like wanking will be released first .

 

[dave_blue12]

I've not read your link in detail but the figures are all over the place. First of all the total number of employed people in the UK (across all sectors) is only about 30m.

So 20% of that is 6m, not 27m. And if we are paying 27m people then thats 90% which is clearly wrong. And the article says 50%.

Sounds like a Diane Abbott interview.

This is not the politics thread and so no-one can mention our Home Secretary ;)

 

[Phil1]

The man made virus to reset the worlds population. Attacks the weak and vunerable, the fit survive. When they ease the lockdown the next wave will be horrendus. Then youre under control by fear. You will take a vaccine that does not heal but allows more deaths while big pharma makes trillions. I pity the weak with all ailments from AIDS to alzheimers. Healthy peoole should go outside we need bacteria to boost our immune sysyem.

You know who I pity? Cunts like you with nothing better to do than spread fear and bullshit.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

The man made virus to reset the worlds population. Attacks the weak and vunerable, the fit survive. When they ease the lockdown the next wave will be horrendus. Then youre under control by fear. You will take a vaccine that does not heal but allows more deaths while big pharma makes trillions. I pity the weak with all ailments from AIDS to alzheimers. Healthy peoole should go outside we need bacteria to boost our immune sysyem.

 

[True_Blue69]

Makes no sense. As I say, the total number of people employed in the UK across all sectors is only like 30m ish. 33m maybe. The article says 50% are furloughed. That's 15m, 16m whatever. It cannot be 27m.

6 million in the public sector plus people on benefits etc. I'm only quoting what I read by the way not sure if they're right or not.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/05/04/half-adults-now-paid-state/

 

[lancs blue]

Makes no sense. As I say, the total number of people employed in the UK across all sectors is only like 30m ish. 33m maybe. The article says 50% are furloughed. That's 15m, 16m whatever. It cannot be 27m.

I can't access the article and can't be arsed registering but could the 27m include partners who are not working but are being indirectly or directly supported by the state?

 

[Proy]

The man made virus to reset the worlds population. Attacks the weak and vunerable, the fit survive. When they ease the lockdown the next wave will be horrendus. Then youre under control by fear. You will take a vaccine that does not heal but allows more deaths while big pharma makes trillions. I pity the weak with all ailments from AIDS to alzheimers. Healthy peoole should go outside we need bacteria to boost our immune sysyem.

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